Today in History (December 10th):
1787: Birthdays: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first free school for the deaf.
1817: Mississippi joined the United States as the 20th state.
1830: Birthdays: Poet Emily Dickinson.
1851: Birthdays: Librarian Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal book classification system.
1869: The Territory of Wyoming granted women the right to vote.
1884: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was published.
1898: Spain signed a treaty officially ending the Spanish-American War. It gave Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States.
1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden.
1903: Birthdays: Actor Una Merkel.
1906: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1911: Birthdays: TV newscaster Chet Huntley.
1914: Birthdays: Actor Dorothy Lamour.
1923: Birthdays: Actor Harold Gould.
1928: Birthdays: Actor Dan Blocker.
1936: Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. His brother succeeded to the throne as King George VI.
1941: Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines in the early days of World War II. Birthdays: Actor Tommy Kirk.
1950: U.S. diplomat Ralph Joseph Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his peace mediation during the first Arab-Israeli war. He was the first African-American to win the award.
1952: Birthdays: Actor Susan Dey.
1960: Birthdays: Actor/director Kenneth Branagh.
1961: Birthdays: Singer/actor Nia Peeples.
1974: Birthdays: Musician Meg White.
1984: The National Science Foundation reported the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system, orbiting a star 21 million light-years from Earth.
1985: Birthdays: Actor Raven-Symone.
1990: Communists won a major victory in the first postwar multi-party elections in the Yugoslavian republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
1997: The Swiss high court ruled that $100 million of the money that had been deposited in banks by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos would be returned to the Philippines government.
2002: The Roman Catholic diocese of Manchester, N.H., admitted responsibility for failing to protect children from abusive priests.
2003: Mick Jagger became Sir Mick after the Rolling Stones’ front man was knighted by Prince Charles.
2004: An Italian court cleared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges.
2005: More than 100 people were killed when a passenger plane crashed in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. Richard Pryor, who pushed the envelope on racial themes and vulgarity with standup and movie comedy, died of cardiac arrest. He was 65.
2006: Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former president of Chile who seized power in a bloody 1973 coup and ruled the nation for 17 years, died at the age of 91.
2007: Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed Dmitri Medvedev, a first deputy prime minister and chairman of the Russian gas monopoly, as his successor in the 2008 presidential election. Medvedev said he would name Putin as prime minister if elected.
2008: The U.S. Congress considered a $14 billion rescue package for Detroit automakers General Motors and Chrysler who said they couldn’t survive until the end of 2008 without financial help. But, while the House of Representatives approved the measure, 237-170, the Senate couldn’t muster enough support and the measure died.
2009: U.S. President Barack Obama defended ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a speech in Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. A special South Carolina House committee voted to censure, but not impeach, Gov. Mark Sanford for bringing ridicule, dishonor, disgrace and shame on the state in a scandal centered on an extramarital affair.
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2011: Western countries and the U.N. urged calm in the Democratic Republic of Congo after President Joseph Kabila was declared the winner in disputed elections. Meanwhile, thousands of Russians took to the streets in Moscow to protest national election results that appeared to keep Vladimir Putin’s ruling party in power, calling for Putin’s resignation.
Quotes
“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another’s view of the universe.” – Marcel Proust
“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.” – Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)
“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” – B. R. Haydon, 1786-1846
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” – Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet:
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
“Anger as soon as fed is dead – ‘Tis starving makes it fat.”
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes”
“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”
“Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb – or Dome of Worm – or Porch of Gnome – or some Elf’s Catacomb?”
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
“For Love is Immortality.”
nincompoop
PRONUNCIATION: (NIN-kuhm-poop, NING-)
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MEANING: (noun), A silly or stupid person.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1673.
USAGE: “I was a nincompoop. A moron. A blockhead.” – Jeanne Birdsall; The Penderwicks at Point Mouette; Knopf; 2011.
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prudential
PRONUNCIATION: (proo-DEN-shuhl)
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Of or relating to prudence.
2. Exercising good judgment, common sense, forethought, caution, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English prudence, from Middle French, from Latin prudentia, contraction of providentia, from provident-, present participle stem of providere (to provide). The words improvise, provide, provident, proviso, purvey, all derive from the same root.
USAGE: “While agreeing that prudential reasons could be mounted on either side of the argument, Meghan felt that there were persuasive reasons not to go to war against Iraq.”